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Re:Why a Universal Basic Income Would Be a Calamity by k__ on Sunday August 20, 2017 @03:43PM (#15059927)
The hope is, we will reinvent new jobs, like we always did.

But we have to reeducate people when their job gets rationalised away before they pensioners

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Re:Why a Universal Basic Income Would Be a Calamity by coldtea on Sunday August 20, 2017 @07:30PM (#15060792)
>The hope is, we will reinvent new jobs, like we always did.

Always being "a couple of times during stages of the industrial revolution" -- back when we had crude automation and no AI.

Hardly a long range of samples to make any safe deductions from.

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